Highlights of Week 2

Room 14 is a fantasic class!  Miss B thinks we are special and have potential.  She would love to see us all striving to learn and succeed. 

The highlights of our second week at school are:

Swimming -
We are busy working to improve our swimming techniques.  Miss B said that Panmure District School is one of the few schools in Auckland to still have an operating swimming pool.  This means that all of us must take advantage of our opportunity to become better swimmers so that we can enjoy the water safely. 

Writing -
We have been writing descriptions about ourselves.  Miss B asked us to use lots of adjectives to make our writing interesting.  We hope that when people read our descriptions they will be able to guess who we are!  Miss B will let us type up our writing next week and we will add a silouette of ourselves to it as well.  We'll add some pictures to show you shortly.

Spanish -
We had our first Spanish lesson on Friday.  Miss B downloaded some videos to show us to help us to learn the days of the week in Spanish and also the colour names.  We asked Miss B if we could play the songs over and over again so we could see the funny mouse in the video as well as to learn the new terms.  H (Year 4), who comes from the Philippines, said that she knew many of the Spanish words because they are the same in her language! 

Spelling Test -
We have done our first spelling test for the year.  We have got some very good spellers in our class!  We have a Year 5 boy who is spelling like a 10 year old!  Our best Year 4 student is spelling like a 9.9 year old and the best Year 3 speller is K who is not far behind.  She spells like a 9.4 year old!  Aren't we a clever bunch?

Maths -
We have been learning how to expand and contract numbers.  Some of us can expand 3-digit numbers and some of us know how to expand 5-digit numbers!  Contracting numbers is becoming easier for us too! 

Assembly -
We had our first Assembly on Friday.  R, Year 3, was awarded a Merit Award for her drastic improvement in swimming!  In Week 1 she couldn't even float!  Now she is gliding confidently.  K, Year 3, was given a Merit Award for her excellent writing about Waitangi Day.  Our class was awarded the first Environmental Award for the year because we are the first class at Panmure District School to have their own blog!  We are pretty excited about that!

Well, we have had a busy week.  We will be learning more, so check back later to see what else we've been doing.  We'd love you to leave a comment too. 

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See you later!